National Defence & Strategy Research Group Exposing the incoherence and weakness in the United Kingdom’s Defence and Security Strategies Her Majesty’s Government – Crisis Management and Strategy It can be argued that for a stable global diplomatic environment to be created core values, many established by the United Kingdom and its allies over time must Continue reading
DefenceSynergia is pleased to publish below the verbatim text of a speech given by the Chief of the Air Staff, Air Chief Marshal Wigston, at the Defence & Security Equipment International DSEI 2019 A very good morning everybody. I am delighted to be back at DSEI, which continues to grow in scale and stature as Continue reading
DefenceSynergia is please to publish the full text of the First Sea Lord, Admiral Radakin, speech to Defence and Security Equipment International 11th September 2019 Ladies and Gentlemen, good morning. I am delighted to be here, and I’m particularly delighted because this is my first DSEI. And I know everybody is now wondering how on Continue reading
National Defence & Strategy Research Group Exposing the incoherence and weakness in the United Kingdom’s Defence and Security Strategies DefenceSynergia (DS) is concerned that Her Majesty’s Government (HMG) is dysfunctional when managing crises and we are in severe danger of being wrong footed by the burgeoning ambitions of the Peoples’ Republic of China (PRC), Russia Continue reading
DefenceSynergia (DS) is most grateful to Prof Dr Julian Lindley-French for permission to publish his latest commentary making A Plea for the New European Realism on this the 80th anniversary of Great Britain’s declaration of war. DS holds the view that Strategy should be articulated so that departmental plans can be coordinated and cohesive – Continue reading
Introduction DefenceSynergia (DS) has long championed the requirement for the United Kingdom (UK) Armed Forces to have sufficient Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW) assets to defend UK interests worldwide, and never more so than now with a growing recognition that our historic sea lanes are no longer secure enough to enable, fully, our important requirement for freedom Continue reading
The Gulf Crisis has exposed the UK’s lack of defence cohesion and capability, says DefenceSynergia. Why is HMS Duncan to be relieved in the Gulf region in circa two months by HMS Kent and then no doubt will return for a period of maintenance in home port, when there is a RN operating base in Continue reading